Saturday, January 31, 2009

Fun Facts

I spared you many but did feel the need to post the best--according to me!

1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.

2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

3. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

4. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

5. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

6. Babies are born without kneecaps. These don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

7. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

8. Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

9. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

10. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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